Have you ever heard of 'Plants' having beneficial parasites? Like the ones that have bugs that help themselves to some of the plant's fruit but also provide things that the plant needs to live.
GM(big 3) is the 'Plant'. It's North American employees were the parasites. GM is and will continue to find out what life is like as a plant without it's beneficial parasites. After all, it's North American employees were GM's best customers. Now that the 'Plants' have been transplanted to places that do not have bugs that are able to provide the support that the plants need.... The transplanted plants will provide fruit for a short time until the fruit spoils on the vines. As with all plants leaving geographic areas, new and different species of plants will eventually take the place of the old species and the bugs will have new plants to work on/in....